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Hippocrates

Food is Your Best Medicine!

February 14, 2013 By Lisa Hill DiFusco

One of the most common yet hidden sources of  chronic illness is right under your finger tips… food!

When Hippocrates, the well known Father of Medicine said, “Let food by thy medicine and medicine be thy food…”, he knew what he was talking about.

But food today is far different from the food of our ancestor’s time, or even our grandmother’s kitchen.  Do you remember, for example, when iceberg lettuce used to be green? Today it is mostly white. Romaine lettuce used to be green. Today grocery stores sell romaine hearts that are mostly white. Both of these items lack chlorophyll, which under normal circumstances converts to magnesium, a necessary mineral responsible for hundreds of bodily functions.

Food is our best medicine. But we need to know what to eat and how to eat in order to achieve optimal health.

 

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: Food as Medicine, health, Hippocrates, rochester new york

Food is Your Best Medicine!

January 7, 2013 By Lisa Hill DiFusco

“Leave your drug in the chemist’s pot

if you can heal your patient with food.”

       Hippocrates, The Founder of Western Medicine

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: Food as Medicine, Hippocrates, rochester new york

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